In collaboration with UFHR, UFIT, the COO and the Office of the CFO, six UF staff have been trained in business process improvement methodologies. This team is available to collaborate on projects within their units and across campus to facilitate efforts to save faculty and staff time, energy and resources. The CCI has been hard at work engaging and empowering staff to help identify and solve problems, improve efficiencies, enhance the customer experience and streamline processes.

Who We Are

Kenneth Allen, Business Affairs

Gwynn Cadwallader, UF Human Resources

Amy Haberman, Office of the CFO

Mikki Hall, UFIT

Emily Moran, Finance & Accounting

Shay Potts, UF Human Resources

Amber Wuertz, UF Human Resources

Improving Processes

So far, the CCI has worked on improving six major processes across UF by:

Reducing the processing time associated with producing emergency payroll checks

Reducing the lead time associated with hiring and paying foreign nationals

Improving the timely collection for auxiliary billing

Expanding the UF Alert program to UF Jacksonville

Establishing clear and consistent FMLA guidelines and resources

Creating one system of record in myUFL for the tracking and reporting of Fund 143 uses

Results

The emergency payroll check process has been improved from 18 hand-offs to just five and reduced processing time by one whole day (a 20-percent improvement).

The lead time of foreign nationals receiving their first paychecks has been reduced from about 34 days to 20 days (46 percent sooner).

The auxiliary billing processing time has decreased while accuracy has increased by 50 percent of Expense to Revenue journals.

UF Alert is now available for students and employees from UF Jacksonville.

UF has created resources for supervisors and employees regarding FMLA policies and processes.

Fund 143 reporting is beta testing the project field ID, with a soft launch of the project field coming in January 2020. During the soft launch, the project ID field will be available and recommended before it is required later in 2020.

Our Impact

So far, about 25 different departments and nearly 100 employees have been engaged in CCI efforts.

Help Us Help You

The CCI is ready to assist your unit with analyzing and improving how it does business. When reviewing submissions, the team weighs the following factors:

Cost or time savings of the submitted project

Projected ease of implementation

Stakeholder buy-in

Risk mitigation

Do you know of a financial or administrative business process that could be improved? Please let us know.